Starting from the Planetary Governor - Chapter 1234 - 670, Rescue Tribunal

Chapter 1234: Chapter 670, Rescue Tribunal

The insect swarms chasing Qin Zhiping and his subordinates from the Extraplanar Tribunal are few from the sky, but more originate from the existing Insect Race forces on the planet ’Taiyuan Star’ they crash-landed on.

The original Taiyuan Star should have been just an ordinary industrial world, displaying a population of 3.8 billion in the records, primarily focused on various forms of primary industry.

But now, there is no sign of human life here.

The only thing left on the planet is devastation.

The ground is covered in insect race flesh blankets, absorbing nutrients from the earth, acting as primary decomposers and digesters. Countless worker insects throw massive quantities of organisms into digestion pools. It’s not just humans but also insects, rodents, and other creatures coexisting with humans on the planet.

The digestion pools transform these corpses or living creatures into pure biomass, with a small portion sent to hatching pools to generate more worker and soldier insects. The former is responsible for transporting and devouring biomass from outside and bringing it back. The latter is responsible for hunting.

Perhaps there are still some scattered infected or even uninfected living humans on the planet, but with survivors numbering in their tens here and dozens there, it makes little difference to their existence.

Oh, the difference being that the insect race can conduct another carpet search and gather more biomass.

Aside from the biomass sent to hatching pools to create new insects, the rest, which accounts for the majority, is stored in warehouses awaiting the arrival of insect race transport ships.

These warehouses storing biomass are topped with tall ’capillary spires’.

These capillary spires seem useless now, but once the insect race transport ships arrive, they’ll directly stay in orbit, extending massive biological pipelines downward to connect with the tall capillary spires. Subsequently, the processed biomass, greatly reduced in size, will be absorbed by the swarm’s biological ships, transported to the core areas for army building and biological ship catalysis.

When the remnants of the Anti-Extraterrestrial Alliance led by Qin Zhiping arrived at Taiyuan Star, the swarm’s tactics changed.

They no longer store the majority of biomass but instead use it to hatch insects; the ratio of corruption shifted from predominantly worker insects to soldier insects.

Of course, actually transitioning from strategy change to hatching a vast swarm of insects that threaten Qin Zhiping’s troops takes a certain time. The Tribunal troops can’t clear all threats on the planet in this period, but just clearing hatch nests and biomass warehouses near the crash site would significantly reduce their subsequent pressure.

However, during this phase, Qin Zhiping made a misjudgment.

His view was more pessimistic, opting for more conservative actions.

Although he dispatched several elite squads from the Silver Watch to destroy several key points, the eradication was insufficient. More troops focused on rescuing supplies from the crash-landed starship, attempting to gather some food reserves from surrounding city ruins or wilderness—that was not very effective, as insects had roughly consumed these areas, leaving a few meager leftovers at best.

However, to put it another way, if they wait for the second detailed sweep of the insects, then simply nothing would remain.

The other part of the troops was tasked with constructing defensive fortifications on-site.

To be blunt, Qin Zhiping believes that resolving the current issues with his limited resources is impossible. He knows that after the starship crash landing, although most of them survived, it merely extends their lives by a few days or months. Without starship escape, the 60,000 to 70,000 remaining people, no matter how elite, cannot survive.

Everything they are doing now is essentially just trying to survive a few more days knowing death is inevitable.

Killing the enemy isn’t even critical anymore. If the final outcome is the swarm’s victory, then killing insects in combat is of little significance, as they will recycle the corpses. Though some biomass may be lost in the process, unless incinerated to ashes, the bulk can still be reclaimed as biomass and eventually hatch into new insects.

Yet, the end result proved that Qin Zhiping was lucky.

Or to say, the persistence, no matter the circumstances, has meaning.

He armed everyone under his command, regardless of age, profession as soldier or starship crew, even chefs from the starship, to battle the endless insect sea evolving on Taiyuan Star for over two months, losing one-third of the population.

No one fled.

Everyone knows, given the current situation, fleeing is meaningless, better to stick together to delay death.

And after these two months, a turning point indeed arrived.

They received unexpected information from the Alliance.

Claiming to be an exploration team from the Alliance, the message stated that Alliance forces are four star systems away. They hope Qin Zhiping and others can hold on, the Alliance will come to their aid.

The survivors’ morale soared!

Although unsure when the Alliance will arrive or if they can hold out until then, they now have hope!

They started to defend more proactively.

Moreover, the Alliance’s assistance arrived faster than expected!

A month later, they observed a Human Fleet appear in orbit around Taiyuan Star.

Not strong, led only by a destroyer, escorting two Escort Ships and four patrol vessels.

However, having this configuration was enough.

In orbit, the insect species biological ships that pursued and heavily threatened their ground fortifications over the past three months were driven off.

Following that, the starship fired several heavy guns towards the ground.

Although the destroyer’s ground support capability wasn’t very strong, it was sufficient to temporarily relieve Qin Zhiping’s troops.

Transport ships landed on the ground, taking away the remnants of the Extraplanar Tribunal in batches.

Thus, Qin Zhiping and his subordinates were saved.

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For the Alliance, dispatching a fleet to a place four star systems away to aid remnants of the Northern Line Army involved risks. fr.e ewebno.vel .com

Yet it wasn’t too significant.

The major difficulty was on the journey back and forth, but the Alliance is currently defending on the planet ’Noclas’, not because they can’t win, but to wait for developments on the West Line, merely to attract and deplete the swarm’s forces.

Gu Hang is confident of repelling the enemy besieging Noclas if they choose to launch a counterattack.

Not to mention, sending a fleet out for support, and then picking them up during their return.

Pressure was limited.

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